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Do mixed media products make you nervous? Conquer your fears and embrace your inner artist with instruction from the best coach on the planet! Join Heidi Swapp, renowned scrapbook and mixed media designer, as she walks you through dozens of … Read More ...
Marine Simon always blows me away with her creativity and cleverness. For this sweet Panda Bear card she used bear stamps and drew circles and lines with blacks and greys to color them and turned them into Pandas, such a … Read More ...
Oh my gosh this card from Channin has such a super fun interactive element, the little bees on the front actually “buzz” around! By utilizing the holes already in the honeycomb die she added pennies behind the opening, adhering the … Read More ...
Take some time each month to relax and color up some pretty floral coloring pages. Dover Publications is offering a coloring page download for each month from January to May. Each page features a different flower for a month and … Read More ...
We all know ink pads are for stamping out your stamps but you can also use them for so many other techniques, like actually coloring in your stamped images with them. Simon Hurley is sharing 3 different ways to color … Read More ...
This beautiful Valentine’s Day card from Vicky has a wonderful vintage feel to it. Stamping and ink blending with Distress inks gives the paper an aged look, gold foiling and paper flowers adds a romantic touch and die cut panels … Read More ...
This amazing card by Mindy has a cute bird on the front but all the fun is actually on the inside. When opened up the card reveals a scene with a pop out heart window featuring an owl delivering Valentine … Read More ...
Distress Oxide inks are great for so many inking and stamping techniques including heat embossing. They stay wet long enough to add embossing powder and once embossed have a nice texture and depth of color. Julie used them to emboss … Read More ...
This graphic red, white and black Valentine’s Day card requires no coloring. Gaylynn used an ink smooshing technique for the vibrant red watercolor background for an easy yet stunning card design. She’s sharing a video tutorial over on the Unity … Read More ...
Elaine Hughes always blows me away with her coloring skills! She used Copic Markers
I used the fun new Winter Walk die from Hello Bluebird along with their Oh Nuts stamp set to create this sweet Valentine’s Day Card. It’s perfect to send to your bestie for “Galentine’s Day” too 🙂 I’ll show you … Read More ...
Sheri create these cute little treat holders for Valentine’s Day with two tag die cuts. She scored and folded the bottom of each tag and then adhered them together, tying the top closed with ribbon. Each tag bag is decorated … Read More ...
This amazing card from Cristena has a wonderful surprise inside, it’s got 3 different panels that fold out! Inside this fun fold card is lots of room for additional stamped images, sentiments and more. I love the cute theme with … Read More ...
Oh my gosh, this Missing You Milk Carton Card from Karolyn is just so cute and clever! She cut a window inside the milk carton and added a rotating wheel behind that has four different animal faces that show in … Read More ...
Theresa is sharing two different ways to add color to paper with embossing folders. The first technique is ink blending on the cardstock in an ombre’ pattern and then embossing, the second is to add ink directly to one side … Read More ...
